Introduction
Lean and Agile comes in many flavours and is applied with varying degrees of rigor and formality at many different levels (team, project, program, value-stream, portfolio, enterprise).
A key challenge is how to maintain good governance, with appropriate oversight and risk coverage, to ensure that investments are well-directed and protected, but without impeding responsiveness or delaying customer value, thereby diminishing their overall value and effectiveness.
This hands-on workshop introduces and applies a number of simple but powerful tools to enable non-invasive governance in a heterogeneous and empowered lean-agile delivery organisation.
Target Audience
- Team Leads / Agile Coaches / Facilitators / “Scrum Masters”
- Quality / Compliance / Governance Processionals
- IT Managers / Sponsors / Leaders
- Lean-Agile Program/Project Managers (Release/Solution Train / Value Stream Engineers)
- Process Improvement Change Agents / Process Groups / Process Engineers
Benefits & Take-Aways
- Deploy clear and objective indicators of the status and health of any endeavour
- Ensure transparency of status irrespective of chosen methodology (waterfall, lean, agile, …)
- Define method-neutral quality gates for effective but non-intrusive lifecycle governance
- Enable local-empowerment and flexibility of lean-agile practices without losing transparency
- Objectively assess the coverage and adequacy of locally-tailored lean-agile ways-of-working
- Use self-assessments to enable teams to inspect and adapt lean-agile working practices
- Take-away ready-to-use enterprise and team health and status indicators and tools.
Workshop Content
You will learn how you can apply an industry-standard framework (Essence) to:
- Establish the status of any Lean-Agile endeavour (Program/Project/Team)
- Deploy simple but comprehensive method-neutral quality checks and gates
- Rapidly assess any endeavour’s state of health (actual versus desired status)
You will use essential practices to learn how you can:
- Empower teams to define their own locally-tailored lean-agile ways-of-working
- Enable full transparency of approach (all teams are “saying what they do”)
You will apply lean-agile practice assessments to:
- Assess quality of practices (are teams “doing what they say”)
- Drive inspect-and-adapt improvement cycles at the team, cross-team and organisation level.